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FR France
I Italy
V Vatican City
MC Monte-Carlo
GB Scotland
NL Netherlands
B Belgium
D Germany
DK Denmark
S Sweden
CZ Czech Republic
A Austria
CH Switzerland
FL Lichtenstein
L Luxembourg

Paris
Fontainbleau
Nemours
Montargis
St Poncy
St Flour
Marvejols
Milau
Clarmont L’Herault
Roujan
Beziers
Labastide de virac
Ardeche
Barjac
Vallon-Pont-d’Arc
Le Luc
Saint Raphael
Cannes
Nice
Ventigmilia
Verona
Lake Garda
Venice
Bologna
Ferrara
Pesaro
Ancona
Portonovo
Acquasanta Terme
Labro
Piediluco
Rieti
Manciano
Terni
Rome
Vatican city
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Inverness
Ullapool
Stornoway
Garenin
Butt of lewis
Rhenigadale
Isle of skye
Fort William
Sienna
Preggio
Genova
Cannes
Cannes La Bocca
Monte-Carlo
Villefranche-sure-mer
Eersel
Amsterdam
Hamburg
Tommerup
Copenhagen
Malmo
Woltersdorf
Berlin
Potsdam
Leipzig
Prague
Vienna
Vienna woods
Salzburg
Innsbruck
Schoppernau
Davos
Vals
Zurich
Kandersteg
Interlaken
Basel
Weil am Rhein
Ronchamp
Luxembourg
Mons
Dunkirk

Favorite place: Garrenin, Scotland

Map shows the route taken and the mode of transport used. Double lines indicate a return journey. Click the map for a detailed view, wait a few seconds – it’s a big one.

Bicycle – red
Train – black
Plane – white
Car – blue
Hitchhike – purple
Boat – orange
Bus – brown

Most N E S W points
N – Butt of Lewis
E – Vienna
S – Rome
W – Garrenin

Total Distance – approximately 10,000 miles

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Big thanks to;
Mother, Susan King

Father, Michael King

Grandfather, Stanley Harris

Thank you for reading.

*I am planning to publish this blog as a book. It will probably take me a few months to collate it all and have it printed, but if you would like a copy, send an email to Patch_king_camberwell@yahoo.co.uk. I will sell them at print cost, however they are still likely to be expensive. I do not yet know what this price will be.

Bus shelters

I really enjoyed making this collection. Feeling real, genuine, boy at christmas excitement when I passed a good one. So many U-turns were performed. Beeped by drivers so many times for crouching in the middle of the road, straining for the perfect shot. I want to thank Alex for sustained patience during the making of this collection, and for her help with deciding on the final cut.
Stops are in the order we stopped at them.

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Designed By Jasper Morrison for Vitra.

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Central switch station, Basel.

Railway switching control building in Basel. Designed by Hurzog De Meuron – architects of the Olympic stadium in Beijing.
It contorts to fit itself into a slender plot between some railway track and a road bridge. It looks perfectly faceless, as a piece of railroad infrastructure should – utilitarian and robust. It is almost windowless as what is sees is digital data.

Notre Dame au-Haut

Le Corbusier. 1955.

Photo of the day

Our first tent visitor.

Lötschbergtunnel

When driving the car, I like to imagine that it is a train. The engine is the locomotive, the front 2 seats the driver’s cabin, the rear seats a single passenger carriage, and the boot a freight wagon. Accelerating slowly and maintaining a steady, consistent, chugging speed. I ask Alex to wait for me in the distance so I can drive up to her, and pretend she is a passenger at a platform. Manual doors.

I boarded a train. A train for cars. Remaining in the driver’s cabin, I could see the tracks through the windscreen and open sided carriages. The car adopted the repetitive, rhythmic feeling of a train. Acceleration was slow, cruising speed steady.

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First snow in Kandersteg. The Scouts are getting excited!

Location:Inneri Hauptstrasse,Kandersteg,Switzerland

Kandersteg International Scout centre

Scout rules:

1. A Scout’s honour is to be trusted.
2. A Scout is loyal.
3. A Scout’s duty is to be useful and to help others.
4. A Scout is a friend to all and a brother to every other Scout.
5. A Scout is courteous.
6. A Scout is a friend to animals.
7. A Scout obeys orders of his parents, Patrol Leader or Scout Master WITHOUT QUESTION.
8. A Scout smiles and whistles under all difficulties.
9. A Scout is thrifty.
10. A Scout is clean in thought, word and deed.

I really hated Cubs when I was a child. Having to interact with other horrible children in those Desborough terrapins.
Yet now I think of Scouts as fun and quaint; all ‘A’ frame tents, badges, walking sticks, toggles, bunk beds, rucksacks and wedgies.
We have come to stay in the Scout’s international centre in Kandersteg, Switzerland. Feeling a distinct pang of shame in answering ‘no’ when asked if i was Scout. It’s the same feeling i get with churches, I go to them but feel silly when I get there.

Our thanks to Sam and Mena.

Photo of the day

It has become tradition to consume croissant on the last day of the week. This Sunday, someone left out a free crate for us.

CHF

I have never before preferred a foreign currency more than Pound Sterling. I’m not referring to investment, stability or exchange, but to the physical appearance of the tender. The size, colour, orientation and cultural references of the Swiss bank notes makes me feel I am paying a higher price for goods than simply the note’s monetary value.

20 CHF. Features composer, Arthur Honegger. Famed for his work entitled, ‘Pacific 2-3-1′ about a steam locomotive. I just downloaded it, it’s great.

100 CHF. Alberto Giacometti.

10 CHF. Le Corbusier.